Two New Jersey women who hoped to have a child together have sued a sperm bank for $3 million, claiming the frozen storage facility lost their embryos. Cathy L. Berger and Adriana Pacheco of Hoboken, N.J., said in court papers they gave Repro Lab Inc. six embryos to store in September 2003. The couple said they had signed a contract to store the tissues there. Repro is a sperm bank that also stores embryos, according to the company's Web site. The couple tried to collect the frozen embryos, created with eggs from Pacheco, in March 2006 after Berger began medical preparation for implantation, according to court papers. But the Manhattan-based Repro told the couple that the embryos "were missing, could not be found, and had been lost," court papers said. ... http://abcnews.go.com

pilot and his 8-year-old daughter were killed Monday when their single-engine plane crashed into his former mother-in-law's house near a southern Indiana airport, authorities said.A preliminary crash investigation leads "us to believe that this was an intentional act," Indiana State Police spokesman 1st Sgt. Dave Bursten said.The crash in Bedford, about 20 miles south of Bloomington, killed Eric Johnson, 47, of Bedford, and his daughter Emily, Bursten said.Emily did not go to school Monday, and Johnson's ex-wife, Beth Johnson, went to Bedford police headquarters about 11:30 a.m. to say she believed he might have abducted the girl, Bursten said."She had a feeling this morning something was wrong," Johnson's former mother-in-law, Vivian Pace, told Indianapolis television station WISH....http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-03-05-indiana-plane-crash_N.htm?csp=34

An Israeli Cabinet member has postponed a trip to Egypt, amid media reports his army unit may have killed 250 Egyptian POWs during the 1967 Middle East war. Binyamin Ben-Eliezer denies the allegations, saying the dead were Palestinian fighters killed in combat. Mr Ben-Eliezer, Israel's infrastructure minister, had been due in Cairo this week to discuss natural gas imports. "Following false publications in the Egyptian press, both sides decided to postpone," his spokesman said. A senior Israeli official quoted anonymously by AFP said the affair was becoming a major diplomatic incident. "The relations between the two countries are compromised," the official was quoted saying. Israel Radio said intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, who takes a lead role in Egypt's negotiations with Israel, told Mr Ben-Eliezer not to come because he could be arrested. ...http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6419471.stm

A majority of people believe that Israel and Iran have a mainly negative influence in the world, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests. It shows that the two countries are closely followed by the United States and North Korea. The poll asked 28,000 in 27 countries to rate a dozen countries plus the European Union in terms of whether they have a positive or negative influence. Canada, Japan and the EU are viewed most positively in the survey. In January, the BBC World Service revealed polling results that suggested most people think the US has a mainly negative influence in the world - and that the numbers had increased significantly in the last couple of years. This latest survey, mostly of the same people, confirms those findings. But it also suggests that two countries are viewed even more negatively - first Israel, and then Iran. North Korea is just behind the US....http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6421597.stm

U.S. and North Korean officials held talks on Monday aimed at eventually normalizing diplomatic ties as part of an agreement under which Pyongyang has pledged to scrap its nuclear arms programs in exchange for aid. The talks in New York marked the highest-level such meeting on U.S. soil since communist North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-il, sent a top envoy to Washington in 2000 in an abortive effort to improve relations.North Korean envoy Kim Kye-gwan and his U.S. counterpart, Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, held the first of two days of discussions on how to resolve problems between two countries that have been bitter foes since the 1950-1953 Korean War. President George W. Bush in 2002 labeled North Korea part of an "axis of evil." And antipathy to the United States has been a core element of Pyongyang's identity for five decades...http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070306/pl_nm/korea_usa_talks_dc

Casinos sprouting across the Midwest are attracting sophisticated cheaters from Las Vegas, Atlantic City and overseas who believe they can scam new, unseasoned staff, gambling officials say.Cheating is often discovered only when casinos' books don't add up, making it difficult to nab culprits, says Joe Diaz of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation. "We've had people coming in from out of state trying to take advantage of inexperienced staff or a staff that hasn't got all the bugs worked out," he says. Most casinos' security staffs are aided by state or local police.Joe Massa, general manager of Iowa's Riverside Casino & Golf Resort, knew scammers might target his casino, which opened in August. He hired experienced pit and security staff, he says, and hasn't detected any out-of-state cheaters....http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-03-05-casinos_N.htm?csp=34